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This Superb Setting, far removed from the rush and turmoil of more congested areas, offers all the ad- vantages of Country Living with the utmost in City Conveniences. Private Dog-Run IInmediatelv adjoining these buildings a private run 40x 100 ft. has been provided for the exclusive use of Tenants' Dogs. Sunny Loggias.Woodhurning Fireplaces Furnished and Unfurnished 120 EAST END AVENUE Corner 85tb Street facing Carl Schurz Park and the East River 9 rooms, 4 bathrooms, (16th floor) $3,800 10 rooms, 4 bathrooms ............Frol'n $2,900 11 rooms, 5 bathroon1s...................... $3,600 14 rooms, 6 bathrooms ............From $4,300 16 rooms, 7 bathrooms, terraces ...... $5,900 Duplex, 14 rooms, 6 bathrooms terraces ....... $5,000 520 EAST 86th STREET at Carl Schurz Park 9 rooms, 3 bathrooms, loggia.......... $2,700 10 rooms, 4 bathrooms, loggia Frol'n $2,700 530 EAST 86th STREET at Carl Schurz Park 8 rooms, 3 bathrooms, loggia Frol'n $2,500 10 rooms, 4 bathrooms, loggia From $2,700 Managed by DOUGLAS GIBBONS & CO., INC. 73 EAST 57th STREET · NEW YORK Mrs. Wall REPRESENTING Vincent Astor Telephone VOlunteer 5-4600 ii:Þ :;; i;:.- .. 4 } munity work for it. Before the war, Izz.i worked in the mill, too. Izzi led a fine life in South Barre. He hunted in the hills, played shortstop on the town baseball team, got in fights, was nick- named Tuffy, had dates with girls, and often sneaked out nights with his fa- ther's car. "When I thought of Christ- mas, I was very sad," he said. "We al- ways had a big celebration at our house on Christmas. The table wQuld be piled \vith food, and there would be wine, beer, cordials, and whiskey, and no mat- ter what time of night you came in on Christmas Eve, there would be my dad and mom at the table, talking to each other. They would talk to each other all through the night, and people would drop in and talk, and there would be presents for me and my six brothers and sisters. I could see this Christmas at home. It would be different. There hadn't been any deaths in our family around Barre for years, and with Italian people a death in the family is a very sad thing. They seem to feel it awfully deep. I could see there wouldn't be any cele- bration at home. Everybody would be in black, and the kids would be quiet, and my mom would be crying. The Cic- tones and the F alcos and the Martones would be all trying to comf()rt them, and I could see my family, al] in black." Izzi thought about a lot of things on Christmas Eve, the fifty-second day adrift. "I thought of that p:pe I had got my dad in Cape Town before we sailed," he said, "and those pillow cases for Mother, and the bracelets for my sisters, and the knives for my brothers. Christmas Eve we all got to talking about Christmas, and I told about how for a couple of weeks before Christmas every year we'd roam all over the hills looking for just the right tree to put up, and then how either Dad or I would cut it own, bring it into the house, and the whole fam- ily would help decorate the tree, and eat big bowls of figs and dates and nuts that Mom would put on the living-room ta- ble. Mr. Maddox led Christmas carols that night. He knew all the words, and Beasley and I knew rpost of them. The two Dutchmen knew the tunes, and sometimes they would use the Dutch words. We sang 'Silent Night,' 'Little T own of Bethlehem,' and 'Adeste Fidelis.' It sounded kind of nice, with the stars shining bright as hell and the water so calm that it reflected back the stars. Nick and the old Dutchman told us about Christmas in Holland, where they celebrate two days. We thought that was a swell idea, and we said that if we were picked up Christmas Day we sure would celebrate both the twenty- fifth and the twenty-sixth. "Christmas Day was all right, al- though it rained a little and all of us were sad and pretty quiet. Mr. Mad,- dox just looked out toward the horizon and now and then he'd hit the ledge with his hand. The next holiday would be New Year's, and we prayed we would be picked up by then." All the men prayed a good deal dur- ing their weeks on the raft. Maddox had studied for the ministry for awhile before deciding to become a teaçher, and when the other men found it out they asked him to lead prayers. He prayed aloud every evening for severa] weeks, a sort of formal prayer service, and then gave it up. He explained that he didn't like to lead prayers, and every- one else seemed somewhat relieved... After that, however, each man prayed in his own way. Sometimes a man would say aloud, "Oh God, help us " I . ld " 0 tomorrow. ZZI wou sayan ur Father" and two or three "Hail Mary''s every evenIng. For a few evenings, Maddox also conducted a rather odd story hour for Hoogendam. Hoogendam had said idly that he liked bedtime stories, so Mad- dox told him "The Three Bears," "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood," and several others. Hoogendam wanted to hear more, but finally Mad- dox said he didn't want to keep on, and the story hour came to an abrupt end. Hoogendam and van der Slot often talked to each other in Dutch. Some- times they quarrelled bitterly. The oth- ers of course had no way of telling exact- ly what the pair were arguing about. Izzi said he thought that one argument arose over Nick's saying that he wished he was an American and that he was going to be one after the war. This hurt van der Slot, a proud Hollander. The Dutch- men also debated the respective merits of their home towns. ALL the men except Izzi talked at rl. one time or another about dying. Izzi tried not to acknowledge even to himself that he might die. Long before, around the end of the first month, Mad- dox had proposed that all the men on the raft write their names on the outside of the flare can, and the date they were torpedoed, November 2nd. "He said that then in case we died," Izzi recalled, "our names would be on the can, and if the raft was ever found or if it drifted ashore someplace, why then our names would .be there and our families would know what became of us. Mr. Maddox